Waves of cold air coming to much of the US after Thanksgiving

Black Friday will come with temperatures well below average in most of the eastern half of the country.

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00:00As we look ahead to the extended forecast, we're going to begin with Thanksgiving.

00:04Big day here. Cold air across the central and northern plains.

00:07We have some snow and snow showers down into the lakes.

00:10And this is our storm system that we just highlighted.

00:12Many areas with 1 to 3 inches in your forecast for the interior, far interior northeast,

00:173 to 6 inches in the high ground of certain mountains there north of Interstate 80.

00:21And there will be some strong storms into the southeast.

00:24Some risk of severe weather Wednesday night and Thursday near and south of Interstate 40.

00:29Not a major severe event, but there will be some strong, gusty thunderstorms out there.

00:32And then the cold air is going to dominate the forecast.

00:35Look at this as it dislodges.

00:37And January cold overspreads more of the eastern two-thirds of the nation.

00:42The freezing line may even reach Interstate 10 next week.

00:46So it's going to get cold and we'll have feet of lake effect snow.

00:50You can see that pink and the white on the map here.

00:53That's where the color table is really screaming cold.

00:56Here's Tuesday next week, 8 days from now.

00:58Very cold air crossing the Great Lakes.

01:00And the lakes are still relatively warm this time of the year.

01:02In fact, they're warmer than they typically would be even this time of the year.

01:05So that's even higher octane fuel for lake effect snow production.

01:09So in transition to that colder time, this is Black Friday morning.

01:13Late Thanksgiving night into Black Friday morning.

01:15The door buster sale.

01:16Some of you will be out there maybe camping out outside of your favorite retailer.

01:19And we're going to be dealing in the upper northern plains here.

01:23The Red River of the north.

01:24Accurate to real field temperatures in the teens below zero.

01:27So bundle up.

01:28It's going to be really cold out there and in areas like Chicago.

01:31Accurate to real field temperatures in the single digits outside there.

01:35Early Black Friday morning.

01:36And lake effect snow picks up Black Friday through the holiday weekend into early next week.

01:41Heavy snow.

01:42Lake effect snow is really going to be piling up for some.

01:44And again, as we kind of step into that, there's Friday.

01:47Black Friday travel impact forecast.

01:50Next week looks cold.

01:525 to 15, 8 to 15 degrees below average across the eastern two-thirds of the nation.